Mikhail Gutseriev

Mikhail Safarbekovich Gutseriev (born 9 March 1958) is a Russian entrepreneur, businessman and poet.
He is the owner of "Russneft", NK "Neftisa", OAO "Russian Coal", ZAO "Mospromstroy" and also GCM Global Energy, a British company, with annual revenue of $1 billion controlling large oil assets in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Gutseriev also owns large assets in real estate including the "National" Hotel and luxury shopping centres such as Petrovskiy, Smolenskiy and Novinskiy Passage. In 2012. Gutseriev began to invest into the media business, and has acquired seven radio stations thus far.
According to Forbes, Gutseriev has a personal fortune of $6.2 billion as of March 2016, up from $2.4 billion the previous year.

In late 2006 he was accused of violating terms of his oil license and failing to pay taxes. After denying the charges, he sold Russneft to billionaire Oleg Deripaska for $2.8 billion and moved to London. When the charges were dropped in 2010, Gutseriev returned to Russia and bought back Russneft. Gutseriev writes lyrics for songs performed by famous Russian singers.

Pharmstandard put $1 million into the company Genotek, which is engaged in DNA research. Among the shareholders of the company are the former head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin, co-owner of the agricultural holding Rusagro Maxim Basov and a partner of Safmar Ventures.

Safmar Group acquired 100% of Eldorado, one of the largest electronics and appliances retail chains. According to the information from the RBC sources, the asset will be combined with Tekhnosila chain, which is owned by the Gusteriev-Shishkhanov's group of companies.

Safmar financial group owned by the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family intends to sell part of the hotel business. This is an historic hotel Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya, as well as Holiday Inn Suschevsky and Holiday Inn Lesnaya.

The seller of home appliances and electronics Eldorado is put up for sale, discovered RBC. The main contender for the purchase is said to be Safmar Group owned by the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family, which could unite Eldorado and their own Technosila.

BIN Group seems to benefit from the crises: since 2008 it has become one of the most active investors in the Russian real estate and oil, and its financial business has grown more than 10 times. How could it do it?

President of Belarus held a big press conference where he spoke about the causes of the conflict around Uralkali of belated apology of Suleiman Kerimov and the role of Mikhail Gutseriev in that history.